These are the facts:
- More people have a mobile phone than a toilet.
- An American taking a five-minute shower uses more water than a typical person in a developing country slum uses in a whole day.
- The water and sanitation crisis claims more lives through disease than any war claims through guns.
- Women spend 200 million hours collecting water in a day. That is equivalent to building 28 empire state buildings each day.
- Every 20 seconds a child dies from a water related disease
- 3.575 people die each year from a water related disease, that is equal to the entire city of Los Angeles.
- The majority of illnesses is caused by fecal matter. Only 10% of waste gets treated, the rest goes into our lakes, rivers, and oceans.
- Three things most of the world can't do: 1. Take a hot shower . 2. Get clean water from the tap. 3. flush away yesterdays dinner.
- More than 3x more people lack water than live in the US.
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